Britain 'failing' net speed tests

The BBC report on research which has found "there is a huge gap between advertised broadband speeds and the actual speeds users can achieve" (read the full story here)

Find out your connection speed at speedtest.net - mine is currently 6033Kbs download and 378Kbs upload, which is probably the best I've ever seen it (even though I have a 8 meg connection and only live 500m from the exchange!)